Word: elementally
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...immense growth of the movement in the last three years, both in England--where the emphasis is largely military--and in America-where more attention is paid to craftsmanship--shows the need for some organizing element in the life of the boy. It is gratifying to know that so many Harvard men are giving their support to a work which has such great possibilities...
...Moroccan situation gave Italy her chance to step into Tripoli, a land filled with a motley crowd of people. There are whites, Arabs, and Negroes composing the chief element of the population, and there are the Bedouins or nomadic Arabs living in the oases which are sprinkled over the desert and around the towns. But these people are hard to civilize and, as much as they hate their Turkish conquerors, they like them better than they do the Christians. The country has always been closed to the civilizing influences which have sometimes been set toward it. It remains a land...
...prize plays, there are also surface resemblances. The character of greatest interest is once more a child; indeed, the salvation of the play will probably rest upon what Miss McDannell (Mr. Craig's actress of children's parts) can get from the boy's speeches. They are the only element of sure distinction in the play. Curiously enough there is a trained nurse in the new play as well as in the old, and there is also a woman wavering on the verge of insanity...
With the exception of a few minor alternations, the football rules as revised summer before last remain unchanged. As expressed by Coach Haughton in his article explaining the work of the rules committee, "the underlying purpose of the new rules was to minimize the element of danger in the game." Although football casualties have not been unheard of since then, it is safe to say that at the end of last season public opinion considered that the committee had successfully fulfilled its purpose...
...protects him from unjust suspicion in making inquiry about the time, borrowing a pencil, or in making other proper communications. The honor system may work better than inefficient proctoring as a discourager of cribbing; but if it is to be compared with efficient proctoring it cannot supply the element of guaranty, unless it involves the systematic spying of students upon each other and the subsequent prosecution of wrong-doers. As in the case of crime in general a surveillance which may be an honorable function when performed by the appointed agents of society is repugnant to the ordinary citizen...